Jason Filley – SnakeLegs

Camstudio – Record screen video. Free alternative to TechSmith’s Camtasia.

Screenshot Captor – Capture, edit, and publish screenshots. Free alternative to TechSmith’s SnagIt. Very nice output.

AVG Anti-Virus – Antivirus. Effective.

CloneSpy – Duplicate file finder and remover. Saved me a bunch of time sorting through gigs of data I’ve accumulated over the last decade or so.

WinDirStat – View your directory and file size usage via treemaps.  It really is quite useful.

KeePass – Password vault.

Inkscape – Vector-based drawing program.

Paint.Net – Image effects and simple editing. The “glow” effect is the best.

Notepad++ – Easy text editor with programming language syntax highlighting.

PuTTY - SSH client.

WinSCP – SFTP and FTP client.

IZArc – Archive utility, like WinZip.

Calculators (I install several)

• Moffsoft FreeCalc
• Windows PowerToy Calculator
• Shortcut to Google’s Calculator

The Entire Sysinternals Suite – Handy when you need them.

Scribus works well for deskop publishing, if you’re a WYSIWYG sort.

AM-DeadLink – Link checker for IE favorites and Firefox bookmarks.